There has been a lot of fuzz on the internet about the new offer from financial spread betting company WorldSpreads. In the latest wave of spread cutting, WorldSpreads managed to undo the competitors by introducing zero spread on 10 popular markets: FTSE100, DAX, CAC, EURO STOXX, GILT, BUND, EUR/USD, AUD/USD, [...]
A former City trader has been found guilty of using insider information in consort with an associate to earn several hundred thousand pounds from spread trading. The trader, originally from South London, set up a spread betting scheme whereby sensitive information was channeled from the fund at which he worked [...]
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has decided that Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have to be regulated more thoroughly. The Financial Services Authority has had Contracts for Difference in it sights for some time. This is an extension of its crusade to clean up the market in small shares (“small caps”) [...]
Although the budget did not raise Capital Gains Tax as much as was feared, it was still quite a large rise, and it can still affect people with large shareholdings. This has made the spread betting look even more attractive due to its tax free status. Unlike shares, futures or [...]
Sometimes it can be daunting to start trading Contracts for Difference or to start spread betting. The very attraction of these forms of share trading, the great gains that can be built up from small movements, also means that the losses can mount up quite quickly. However a spread [...]
Many people can not trade during work hours. After all we’re paid to work during that time and not trade on our own account. There are some alternatives. Taking the long view is an obvious but often overlooked strategy for out of hours traders to follow. To take a topical [...]
Once again CapitalSpreads prove that they are the cheapest and most competitive spread betting broker by cutting spread on Wall Street Rolling Daily from 3 points to 2 points. A few months ago CityIndex cut the spread on Wall Street to 1 point and was just a matter of time [...]
Thursday, 6th of May, is probably the most important day of this year in the UK and millions of people will have their say on the future of this country and who becomes the next prime minister. General election will have a major impact on ordinary lives and stock markets. [...]
Remember the days when you had to stay glued to your monitor looking for trading opportunities and waiting to exploit short term volatility in the market? Spread betting was not for everyone as people did not want to give up their social lives for trading. Sitting at home and just [...]
Talibi’s books “The Black Swan” and “Fooled by Randomness” argue, reasonably convincingly, that extreme events are under priced in the current market due to a lack of experience and the over reliance on mathematical models in trading. To take advantage of this they advocate a “dumbbell strategy” which basically is [...]
